Pushcart vendors

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While some vendors brave the winter, it seems the profusion of pushcarts sprout with the spring flowers. Some, like long-time peanut vendor Peter Alex of Roxbury, were neighborhood institutions. Others pass through as quickly as their pedal-powered carts can carry them. With the surge in popularity of food trucks in recent years all over the city, we look back at push carts and small stands selling everything from pretzels to produce. Lane Turner and Lisa Tuite

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May 10, 1980: Joe Matera, president of the Haymarket Pushcart Association, argued with Captain Richard Leary of District 1 after police arrested several Haymarket vendors. Three peddlers whose watermelon stand allegedly was blocking a fire land on North Street were arrested.

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Aug. 8, 1980: Fortunato Veiga, 82, sold vegetables alongside her West Duxbury farm on Route 53 in Duxbury. For the past 32 years she had been up at 5 each morning to do the picking, weeding, and watering on her farm. Then she brought the vegetables to her spot near the road and sold them.

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